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ABC Pulling the Plug On Live Well Network

Will be interesting to see what our local station who had it on its subchannel puts in its place, if anything. WLYH (CW) carries it. It previously had The Cool TV.
 
Never was a fan of it, but at least it offered 'HGTV Like' programming OTA for those who wanted to cut the cord. My major issue was that in Detroit, RTV was dumped for it.
 
Welcome news. Here in Philly, WPVI (along with most other O&O's I believe) actually had TWO versions of this on separate subchannels, one HD and one SD 16X9. An "Accuweather" weather channel was dropped in favor of this lukewarm midday-weekend programming snoozefest of a channel. Hope to see more local news product instead, or at least the return of a local weather subchannel (WCAU here also dropped theirs in favor of the ill-fated "NBC Nonstop" format, so Philly went from 2 local weather channels to zero).
 
When Nexstar bought WATN ABC 24 in Memphis and WJKT Fox 16 in Jackson, TN they dropped Live Well and replaced it with nothing. There is still a blank channel on 16.2 that shows up on the tuner, but nothing on it. I remember hearing that Nexstar didn’t carry subchannels, and they definitely proved it when they dropped Live Well. At least they’re still carrying Me TV on WLMT CW 30 in Memphis.
 
PhillyWatch said:
Welcome news. Here in Philly, WPVI (along with most other O&O's I believe) actually had TWO versions of this on separate subchannels, one HD and one SD 16X9. An "Accuweather" weather channel was dropped in favor of this lukewarm midday-weekend programming snoozefest of a channel. Hope to see more local news product instead, or at least the return of a local weather subchannel (WCAU here also dropped theirs in favor of the ill-fated "NBC Nonstop" format, so Philly went from 2 local weather channels to zero).
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I would like to see WPVI program their .2 and .3 as another local independent channel. They have coverage in both SD and HD on Comcast Xfinity and Verizon FiOS. They could run Action News from 7-10am to compete against Fox's Good Day and CBS3's news on the CW. Market it and let people know where it is on their cable lineup and people may watch it.
 
In NYC, WCBS 2.2 runs a 24/7 news channel (with a repetitive loop of news). My guess is WABC might do something similar to replace Live Well.
 
ansky212 said:
In NYC, WCBS 2.2 runs a 24/7 news channel (with a repetitive loop of news). My guess is WABC might do something similar to replace Live Well.
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KYW (WCBS's sister station) in Philly does the same thing on 3.2. I don't see it much, only when watching via antenna. Comcast and Verizon don't carry 3.2 down here in Philly.
 
umfan said:
Never was a fan of it, but at least it offered 'HGTV Like' programming OTA for those who wanted to cut the cord. My major issue was that in Detroit, RTV was dumped for it.
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They were nothing like HGTV they were all over the place felt more Food Network and those last night infomercial that sold exercise junk and like 3 or 4 programs HGTV not enough to really feel like HGTV. Being all over the place with programing is what got them axed
 
Good news, 'cept it won't be pulled down immediately. It's a worthless subchannel with nothing interesting on it that couldn't be seen on your PBS Create subchannel. And the fact it's in HD for no good reason seriously degraded the ABC main channel picture quality. In Los Angeles, LWN runs in HD on .2 and SD on .3! Talk about the Department of Redundancy Department. I preferred KABC's ABC+ experiment where ABC shows were time shifted up an hour or two so if you missed the first run premiere due to scheduling conflicts you could catch it later on the sub.

Hopefully ABC O&Os can offer something else worth watching because LWN certainly wasn't it. Since the female geared programming was a bust maybe the Mouse could go the other way and make a sub more kid focused, like a Retro Disney sub. Show old Mickey Mouse Club, Wonderful World of Disney and classic Walt Disney cartoons. Show old Disney movies like "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes", "The Cat From Outer Space" and "Gus" among a treasure trove of others. It wouldn't directly compete with The Disney Channel nor should it. Their cable channel doesn't bother with old school Disney anyway so a retro focus wouldn't hurt the success The Disney Channel has. The retro angle seems to be the golden ticket for the most successful subs like ME-TV and Antenna and it's not like the Mouse isn't sitting on a King's ransom of content just lying around collecting dust.
 
January is right around the corner. Has there been any recent news about what programming will replace the Live Well network?
 
ansky212 said:
January is right around the corner. Has there been any recent news about what programming will replace the Live Well network?
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From what I read and heard, the ABC O&Os will program their subchannels slot with local programming (much like they did before Live Well became a full network), and maybe keep around the Live Well shows as filler (especially since the ABC-owned stations produced the bulk of Live Well's programming).

The Live Well stations outside of the ABC group are on their own...some stations had already replaced Live Well with other networks such Me-TV and Cozi.
 
What will happen in Houston ABC has Live Well on 2 sub channels one is HD the other is SD so well they make no dark and turn it off??
 
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